2014 ASCB/IFCB Meeting Program

Click the images above to view the 2014 ASCB/IFCB Meeting Program or Poster Guide. Once you get to the book, if you wish to download the program as a PDF, please click on the download button. From there, you can decide whether you want to download the current page(s) or the entire book.

Member-Organized Special Interest SubgroupsClick here to view the titles, organizers, descriptions and schedules for the 22 Subgroup sessions.

1:00 pm-5:00 pm

Interdisciplinary Session- This year’s program will explore the interplay between theory and experiment in problems in cell biology. Click here for more information.

2:15 pm-5:30 pm

Undergraduate Student Program and Poster Session. Click here for more information.

4:30 pm

High School Program: Explore the World with a Fold-Your-Own Microscope (FULL)

6:00 pm

Keynote-Talks will span the origin of life to the cosmos. Mineral evolution, mineral ecology, and the co-evolution of life and rocks. Robert M. Hazen, Carnegie Institution of Science and Deep Carbon ObservatoryThe habitability of Mars as revealed by the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Steven W. Squyres, Cornell University

International Funding and Training Opportunities Sessions. Click here for more information.

11:00 am-12:00 pm

Animating Molecules with Molecular Flipbook.Click here for more information.

12:00 pm-3:00 pm

Poster Presentations in the ASCB Learning Center.Science Education Posters–Posters on approaches to cell biology education at the K–12, undergraduate, graduate, and medical school levels will be presented.

12:00 pm-4:00 pm

Six ePoster Talk Sessions in the ASCB Learning Center
(2 rooms, 3 per room) Click here for a full list of ePoster Talk Sessions and talks.

1:30 pm-2:15 pm

Meet the Editor of Molecular Biology of the Cell at the ASCB Booth in the ASCB Learning Center.

3:00 pm-3:50 pm

Science Career Panels (2 concurrent)
Consulting and Entrepreneurship
Science WritingClick here for more information including panelists.

Networking Happy Hour at the Career Center. Click here for more information.

6:45 pm-7:45 pm

Zombie Cell Slam

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

7:30 am-4:30 pm

Career Center Open Center- Click here for a list of events and sessions at the Career Center.

8:00 am-9:30 am

Symposium 5: Life and Death in the Cell(Click here for full list of Symposia with talk titles)Chair: Ana Maria Cuervo, Albert Einstein College of MedicineSpeakers:
Andrea Ballabio, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Naples, Italy, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TexasYoshinori Ohsumi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Richard Youle, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/NIH

Six Concurrent Scientific Minisymposia(Click here to view a list of Minisymposia topics, and co-chairs)

4:00 pm-6:25 pm

Journal Editors Panel
An Afternoon with the Editors: An Open Discussion with Senior Journal EditorsClick here for more information.

6:45 pm-8:15 pm

Public Service Award and E.B. Wilson Medal Presentation and LecturePublic Service Awardee: U.S. Congressman Rush HoltE.B. Wilson Medalists:William R. Brinkley, Baylor College of MedicineJohn E. Heuser, Washington University in St. LouisPeter Satir, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

8:30 am-10:55 am

Six Concurrent Scientific Minisymposia
(Click here to view a list of Minisymposia topics, and co-chairs)

11:15 am-12:15 pm

Symposium 7: New Perspectives on the Nucleus(Click here for full list of Symposia with talk titles)
Chair: Beatriz Fontoura, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Speakers:
Titia de Lange, Rockefeller UniversityClodagh O’Shea, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies